Re: version control

["Janet Swisher" <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Kevin,

My company uses Subversion (and Tortoise), integrated with Trac
(http://trac.edgewall.org/) for issue-tracking and project
documentation.

To use SVN with RoboHelp projects, I have to "generate" WebHelp output
to a location outside the working copy, because RoboHelp (X5) blows
away all directory structures, including .svn directories. However,
the "generated" files are transitory, and I can "publish" into the
working copy with no problem.

Some of our developers prefer Mercurial, for the reasons Lech
mentioned, but the combination of SVN and Trac has a lot of inertia
here.

I'm interested in hearing how you plan to set up SVN to be a CMS for
DITA. Please post details!

--Janet

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Lech Rzedzicki <xchaotic -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> For geographically or otherwise dispersed teams, distributed SCMs like
> GIT or Mercurial do best, but SVN has a lot of tools and community
> behind it and with latest 1.5 supposedly supporting merge tracking,
> the differences are negligible for simple projects and I'd go with SVN
> too.
> SVN also has a lot of good reference and tutorial materials.
>
> Another option for DITA topics would be to integrate within Eclipse,
> if you're familiar with the environment.
>
> Lech
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Kevin McGowan <thatguy_80 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm pondering using Subversion (and Tortoise) to set up a simple version-control/content management system for our documentation. We'll be using DITA XML (yes, everyone I work with seems to want DITA now)...
>>
>> I've used these tools before, and do like them. However, if anyone has an alternate suggestion that would also be easy to use and FREE to install, I'm all ears. :)
>>



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